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I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

— Zbigniew Herbert

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You survived not to live on
your time is short, you have to give a proof of truth

And do not forgive indeed it is beyond your power
to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn

Now that we're alone we can talk prince man to man
though you lie on the stairs and see no more than a dead ant.

The liver is not a gentleman.

And if the City falls and one survives
he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile
he shall be the City

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